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Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Staff

Director's Office

  • T. D. Jacobsen

    Director & Principal Research Scientist

    Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences

    
412-268-2434
    
tj50@andrew.cmu.edu

  • Robert W. Kiger
    Emeritus, Director & Principal Research Scientist
    Distinguished Service Professor of Botany
    Adjunct Professor of History of Science

    412-268-2434
    rkiger@andrew.cmu.edu

  • Amy Ashley
    Business Administrator & Facilities Coordinator
    412-268-2434
    aashley@andrew.cmu.edu

  • Leslie Shaver
    Administrative Assistant
    412-268-7300
    lshaver@andrew.cmu.edu

  • Scarlett T. Townsend
    Publication and Marketing Manager
    412-268-7304
    st19@andrew.cmu.edu

Archives

Art

Bibliography

Library

  • Charlotte A. Tancin
    Librarian & Principal Research Scholar
    412-268-7301
    ctancin@cmu.edu

Adjunct Staff

  • Francesca Anderson
    Honorary Curator of Art
    Vero Beach, FL

  • Lugene B. Bruno

    Adjunct Research Scholar
    Pittsburgh, PA

  • Mason Heberling
    Adjunct Research Scientist


    Assistant Curator
, Botany department, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

  • Susan A. Henry

    Adjunct Principal Research Scientist
    Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
, Cornell University

  • Bonnie L. Isaac

    Adjunct Research Scientist


    Collection Manager
, Botany department, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

  • Sue A. Thompson

    Adjunct Research Scientist


    Pittsburgh, PA

  • Jaime Torner Pannocchia

    Honorary Curator

 of Art
    Barcelona, Spain

  • Alain Touwaide

    Adjunct Research Scholar


    Historian of Sciences, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution



Earliest staff photograph, Hunt Botanical Library (now Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation), conference room (now gallery), 1962, photograph by an unknown photographer, HI Archives Institutional Archives collection. Standing, from left: Freda K. Harter (administrative secretary, 1962–1963), Olga P. Macek (bookkeeper, 1961–1962), Irene E. Kueshner (cataloguing assistant, 1961–1962), Mary Kalberer (student assistant, 1962–1963), Robert Pfaller (student assistant, 1962–1966), Joan L. Sabo (bindery assistant, 1962–1963), Jeane L. Criss, (office assistant, 1961–1962; cataloguing assistant, 1962–1965), Beatrice Johnson (housekeeper, 1961–1968), Flavia Zortea (assistant bookbinder, 1961–1970), Penelope G. Williams (bindery assistant, 1961–1964). Seated, from left: John V. Brindle (1911–1991; curator of art, 1961–1982), Thomas W. Patterson (1905–1972; bookbinder, 1961–1972), Ian MacPhail (1923–2014; bibliographer, 1961–1964), George H. M. Lawrence (1910–1978; director, 1960–1970), Helen Becker (cataloguer, 1961–1962), Willem D. Margadant (1916–1997; assistant librarian, 1962–1970), James D. Van Trump (1908–1995; bibliographic assistant, 1962–1963).